Photo: DouglasGoldman · CC BY-SA 4.0For recorded crime, Crerar sits in the middle of Canadian towns
Between 2023 and 2025 the severity figure fell, 68.2 to 62.2. Across all the graded crimes, Crerar lands on B− (#519 of 862 in Ontario): close to the middle of Canadian towns, on crime its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 11.7 violent incidents and 31.2 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 10.8 and 25.1 in the typical Canadian town of 50,000+. Against usual levels of 75.2 and 54.2, violent and non-violent offences here reach 85.7 and 58.2.
Statistics Canada, police-reported crime, 2023–2025 means. The index weighs each crime by its seriousness; rates are incidents per 1,000 residents a year. Crime severity and crime rate for the Hamilton service area.
What’s behind Crerar’s grade
How sure: Less sure than most. The grade rests on a figure for the whole city, so Crerar’s own streets could sit well above or below it.
The grade weighs the Crime Severity Index and its violent half, averaged over 2023–2025, against every Canadian town and city neighbourhood of 1,000 people or more.
Its place: #519 of 862 in Ontario and #1,018 of 2,572 Canadian towns.
The Crime Severity Index and its two halves, beside the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Which crimes make up Hamilton’s figures
These are Hamilton’s figures, for its police’s whole area: they aren’t published by neighbourhood.
Against the typical town its size, Hamilton runs highest on motor vehicle theft (3.1 per 1,000 against 1.7), assault (6.7 per 1,000 against 4.9) and theft under $5,000 (15 per 1,000 against 11.5).
Every Statistics Canada violation line
| Violation | Incidents a year | Per 1,000 | Cleared |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homicide | 10 | 0.02 | 83% |
| Sexual violations against children | 95 | 0.2 | 55% |
| Assaults against a peace officer | 122.3 | 0.2 | 95% |
| Firearms: use, discharge, pointing | 77.3 | 0.1 | 45% |
| Robbery | 380.7 | 0.6 | 36% |
| Forcible confinement or kidnapping | 37 | 0.06 | 83% |
| Other violent violations | 117.7 | 0.2 | 50% |
| Breaking and entering | 1,695 | 2.7 | 22% |
| Possession of stolen property | 237.3 | 0.4 | 88% |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | 1,925.7 | 3.1 | 6% |
| Theft over $5,000 | 283.3 | 0.5 | 9% |
| Theft under $5,000 | 9,419.7 | 15 | 7% |
| Mischief | 2,898.7 | 4.6 | 14% |
| Weapons violations | 192 | 0.3 | 76% |
| Administration of justice violations | 2,806.3 | 4.5 | 93% |
| Other Criminal Code violations | 216.7 | 0.3 | 46% |
| Drug violations | 821.7 | 1.3 | 73% |
| Impaired driving | 397 | 0.6 | 97% |
| Failing to stop or remain | 11.3 | 0.02 | 71% |
Statistics Canada’s violation groups for the whole police service or detachment: incidents a year are its own, the town’s share is only estimated in the tiles. Cleared: incidents solved by a charge or otherwise, as a share of those reported.
Incidents per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025 means, against the typical figure for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
Crerar, year by year
Crime Severity Index
The index started at its highest, 68.2 in 2023, and touched its lowest in 2025, at 62.2. The comparison line, the typical Canadian town of 50,000+, runs from 64.3 in 2023 to 59.2 by 2025.
Every year as a table
| Year | Crerar | Typical town of 50,000+ |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 62.2 | 59.2 |
| 2024 | 66.7 | 59.9 |
| 2023 | 68.2 | 64.3 |
Statistics Canada, Crime Severity Index by police service, each year as published. Typical: the median of Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more.
The Crime Severity Index of the police covering Crerar, each year, against the typical Canadian town of 50,000+.
Crime in the places around Crerar
| Town | People | Severity index | Violent index | Safety |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crerar | 2,877 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Jerome | 2,820 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Barnstown | 6,603 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Bruleville | 4,310 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Rushdale | 5,154 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Butler | 2,922 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
| Greeningdon | 3,296 | 65.7 | 85.7 | B− |
Sharing its police with 6 neighbours, it shares their figure as well, so they aren’t compared.
Each place’s police figures, 2023–2025 means.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What clearance means. The clearance rate is the share of incidents police solve, by a charge or otherwise, weighted by seriousness like the index. It isn’t a conviction rate.
- An index, not a verdict. Statistics Canada, which publishes the index, attaches a caution: “The CSI is not an indicator of overall safety and should be interpreted in the broader community context.” The number weighs each reported crime by its seriousness before dividing by residents.
- City-wide figures. The figures for Crerar are city-wide: neighbourhood counts aren’t published as open data here.
- The index’s scale. Its scale starts from Canada in 2006, set at 100, so a figure above 100 means more serious crime per resident than the country had then.
Questions about safety in Crerar
Is Crerar safe?
Against a typical 60.3 for Canadian towns of 50,000 people or more, Crerar’s Crime Severity Index stands at 65.7 for 2023–2025. Its police record 11.7 violent incidents and 31.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year.
What is the most common crime in Crerar?
Theft under $5,000 is the most common, at 15 per 1,000 residents a year, then assault (6.7) and other Criminal Code offences (5.2).
Is crime going up in Crerar?
The reverse: 68.2 in 2023 came down to 62.2 by 2025, 9% lower.
How much of Crerar’s crime do police solve?
Weighted by seriousness, police cleared 34% of crime (50% of violent crime, 24% of the rest). The typical Canadian town of 50,000+ clears 38%.
Whose figures are these?
Those of the police service that covers the whole city.
Source: Statistics Canada, police-reported crime by police service and detachment, 2023–2025 (Statistics Canada Open Licence); TownRatings calculation.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Crime severity index and weighted clearance rates, police services (tables 35-10-0186 to 0190, 0061, 0063, 0064), 2023–2025 · Statistics Canada, Incident-based crime statistics by detailed violations, police services (35-10-0178 to 0185) · Safety Grade: TownRatings calculation. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).